Atelier in Summer 2023
A series of concerts, presentations, lectures, interactive exhibits, workshops, and discussions
„Maschinelle Pareidolia” — New works on the subject of AI and the voices ofArtemi Gioti, Ludvig Elblaus, Claudio Panariello, and Luc Döbereiner
Pareidolia refers to the phenomenon of recognizing patterns, voices, faces and objects in things or sounds that do not actually contain them. We mean objects seen in the passing clouds or recognizing a face on the surface of Mars. Human perception is constantly looking for known patterns and meanings. Similarly, AI seeks to recognize for patterns and meaning in data and here here too, there are misinterpretations. AI hears voices, it imagines forms in random noise, dreams up faces, and produces phantasmagoria and "phantom sounds." The concert program „Maschinelle Pareidolia” occupies itself with the generative potential of AI, a potential that does not just lie in functioning identification, but rather in the creative mistakes of this technology. This is about, in particular, the relationship between AI and the human voice, its identity and embodiment, speech recognition, distortion, and synthesis.
This program consists of four new compositions for the ensemble AuditivVokal Dresden, which deals with the relationship between man and machine in different ways. The piece by Claudio Panariello investigates how and what crying, despair, and finally their disintegration mean for the machine. The composition by Ludvig Elblaus combines a live vocal performance with an electronic part generated in real time. While the singers adapt, the machine tries to do the same and sets both worlds next to each other. The piece by Artemi Gioti investigates the transformative potential of new technologies for musical thinking and explores human-computer co-creativity. Luc Döbereiner's composition occupies itself with the relationship between the human voice and synthetic sounds and with it, how musical decisions can be made collectively and collaboratively between the performers and algorithms.
„Maschinelle Pareidolia” is supported by the impulse program "Culture after Corona" of the Ministry for Science, Research, and Art Baden-Württemberg.
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When Music Design students and Instrumentalists work together, something new and creative arises: Music, in which acoustic sounds are created on an equal footing with electronic ones, interacts, coalesces. A whole special live experience is offered at the studio concert in the Kesselhaus with new formed works for various instruments in combination with live electronics.
Students of the Spatial Acoustics Seminar under the direction of Prof. Ludger Brümmer and Prof. Dr. Joachim Goßmann present compositions and musical experiments with the multi-channel spatial acoustics system of the University.
In the context of the event "Trossingen Open" works will be presented: there will be a multi-faceted sound experience on the multi-channel system in the "Klangpavillon", in-house productions in the field of radio plays, and spatial acoustics compositions, which invite you to linger and listen. A detailed playing for the Klangpavillon will follow.
Music design students in their 5th and 6th semesters present the results of their end of year projects. These include music productions, installations and performances. Program details to follow.